Opeyemi — unisex name

What the Data Says About Opeyemi

The Social Security Administration has registered 30 babies named Opeyemi between 1996 and 2010, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Opeyemi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Opeyemi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Opeyemi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 19 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Opeyemi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Opeyemi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 30 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.